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It's completely transparent to visible light but also a poor infrared absorber. It has only one active IR absorbing vibrational mode, an asymmetric stretch. The symmetric stretch is IR inactive. And of course it is only present in trace amounts. When its ppm is reported it is always for dry...

Martinghoul, not only do I like what you've written, I like it very much. Not only can deficits be too large, they can be too small! I don't think very many people realize that. Certainly the idea that the Federal budget should be balanced on some arbitrary time scale, a fiscal year for...

You may have missed my parenthetic 'per se'. "Democrats need to cast her aside like a bad habit. She brings nothing to the table at this point, and is much more of a liability than an asset. The party and the people owe her nothing." Agreed. But I should think, were I a democrat, that the...

It think that would be the basis of our disagreement. I don't think innuendo is enough to "establish." If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like like a duck, then there is evidence it is a duck. But if there is only innuendo and no one has seen it walk nor heard it quack...

Agreed. However bad judgement is not, per se, an actionable offense, is it? While many people think Hillary should have been prosecuted for receiving classified email on her home server, most of them are not lawyers. In the end lawyers, i.e., experts in the law, made the decision that...

And believe if it's in print on the internet it must be true no matter how ridiculous, how outrageous.

George Bush was our most lovable President, except for the fact that he was President, and the stuff that he and Dick Cheney did was no laughing matter.

I have little interest in any of this, but still I'm perplexed. Way wouldn't Hillary just send him a strand and ask for a check in return?. That's what I'd do.

The Clintons have already been investigated ad nauseam. You are surely aware of that, unless of course you are quite young. Let's move on, shall we, to greener pastures. Let's look at Donald Trumps Real Estate dealings and see if he correctly reported them on his tax returns.

Evolution is a bitch.

hell yes. Let's do it and see what happens. And then move on from there. But let's do something!

Presumably it would be paid for by diverting your insurance premiums to medicare payments instead. Medicare's overhead is far lower than overhead in the private sector, so logically we ought to see substantially lower net costs under medicare. Who knows for sure until we try it. I know the...

"Does anybody really want to throw out good young people brought here by no fault of their own?" Steve Bannon does! I was shocked to learn that Bannon wants these folks deported. Every last one of them. That is one of the things, among several other things, he said in the Charlie Rose...

Bernie Rocks!

Not really. Although it is true Hitler and The Donald share narcissism as a dominating personality trait, and they may share some racist views as well, there the comparison ends. Hitler was far more intelligent than The Donald and certainly a vastly more effective leader. The accomplishments...

I would like to suggest that these are the types of remarks that add little to our understanding of these important issues. I recognize that defining someone's else's position so as to defend and strengthen your own is a common rhetorical technique. But it's often too transparent to be...

This is really an absurd accusation when you think about it. The implication is that Soros would personally approve of "...thugs ... beat[ing] up anyone with a right-leaning opinion." Such a thing is antithetical to everything his open Society Foundation Stands for! I would expect this from...

First impressions: Extraordinarily bright and glib. Quick mind! Engaging personality. Self-confident. Listens, but only weakly absorbs, because internally thinking about the next line, the next rejoinder. One sees immediately that this guy could sell the hell out of securities on Wall Street...

I never heard that myself. She did win the popular vote if that's what you mean. But the popular vote is not how we elect presidents. We don't elect Presidents democratically, but I think all my friends know that.

Of course this will happen. Why would it not? These open society groups are fighting totalitarian governments. Why would those governments welcome these groups. They wouldn't. Some of the things Soros has done have actually put him in personal danger, as for example when he flew into...